Above: Swenson and Baus FELIX reading announcement
FELIX = A SERIES OF NEW WRITING
Cole Swensen & Eric Baus
Thursday, September 20, 4:30 p.m.
Memorial Library, Room 126
+ COLE SWENSEN's most recent book is The Glass Age (Alice James Books, 2007). Her earlier collections have won numerous awards, including The San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award and Sun & Moon’s New America Writing Award. She is the editor of La Presse, a very small press that publishes French poetry in English translation.
A recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, she divides her time between Washington DC, Paris, and Iowa, where she teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
+ ERIC BAUS is the author of The To Sound, selected by Forrest Gander for the 2002 Verse Prize, and Tuned Droves, forthcoming in January of 2008 from Octopus Books. He has published poems in Verse, Hambone, First Intensity, Colorado Review, and other journals. He currently lives in Denver where he edits Minus House chapbooks.
A public reception will follow the reading. This event is co-sponsored by: the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, the General Library System of UW-Madison, the UW Lectures Committee, the Program in Creative Writing, the English Department, and the French and Italian Department.
More on Cole Swenson, including biographical information and examples of her work:
Cole Swenson on Poets.org
More on Eric Baus, including biographical information and links to some poems that have appeared in journals and online:
Eric Buas author page from Wave Books
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